Policy Issues toward Low Carbon Type Urban Building

Modelling Urban Scale Retrofit, Pathways to 2050 Low Carbon Residential Building Stock

A bottom up engineering modelling approach has been used to investigate the pathways to 2050 low carbon residential building stock. The impact of housing retrofit, renewable technologies, occupant behaviour, and grid decarbonisation is measured at a local authority scale. The results of this exercise were visualised using a client web application, or ‘demonstrator,’ which was developed to allow...

Toward Deadline Aware Low Carbon Supply Chain

Reduction of CO2 emissions and moving toward a low carbon economy is the great challenge of our time. Aside from the ecological impact, low carbon solutions offer a huge business opportunity. At the same time, organizations must remain competitive and compliant to business rules. One of the important quality criteria in supply chain is temporal compliance. Tasks must be executed within agreed u...

Contradiction, intervention, and urban low carbon transitions

This paper presents an analysis of contradictions in urban low carbon transitions as engines of change. Following Kojève’s reading of contradiction in Hegel’s oeuvre, I argue that contradiction is a constitutive feature of low carbon interventions. This is an alternative to conventional readings of contradiction as a provisional encounter of opposites in which one will eventually cancel out the...

Project CHARGE: building an urban health policy advocacy community.

BACKGROUND The Coalition for Health Access to Reach Greater Equity (Project CHARGE) is a health policy advocacy coalition devoted to improving healthcare access for Asian Americans in New York City. OBJECTIVES This paper discusses Project CHARGE's strategies for building a successful coalition. METHODS Findings are based on evaluation data from field observations and surveys of Coalition re...

Entrepreneurship and Urban Success: Toward a Policy Consensus